Comments Thread For: Hearn: I'm Worried About Andy Ruiz, It's a Bad Style For Joshua

[Shadoww702]

I would definitely go with Ruiz over Breazeale and Hunter. Breazeale already lost to Joshua and Hunter is the perfect style match up for Joshua. Ruiz apart from his feet and physical appearance I think is a good match up on a short notice.

I wouldn't??? That would be a 50/50 fight and most definitely goin 12 rounds.

[Shadoww702]

Some have an agenda, others are casual fans who don't know any better.

Which your guilty of BOTH!!!

[BangEM]

I think it’s so much the way he dispatched him.

You’ll always get that when a boxer comes forward with his guard down and chin up.

Even Mayweather and his brittle hands sparked Victor Ortiz out when he came towards him with his hands down and chin up.

[Shadoww702]

Good LORD!!!! Some fools on this site trying hype Ruiz up as some BAD @SS!!! Neither him or Beaz is a Top 10 HW. The HW division just SUKS outside the big 3.

[BangEM]

Some have an agenda, others are casual fans who don't know any better.

I don’t even mind the casuals because they will most likely flow with the wave.

However, the ones with agendas are always hilarious in an irritating way. And it has more to do with their insecurities and low self-esteem issues.

[thack]

Ruiz will make this 'fun' for as long as it lasts and will have a go. Unfortunately this is not going to be good enough to fill the humdinger of a bill that Hearn promised , although Joshua is a PPV fighter this match up isn't a PPV fight.

Hearn should stop the nonsense about being afraid of Ruiz's style and sell it as an event to show case Joshua in the US. against an opponent who on more than one betting site he's 100/1 on to beat.

[kafkod]

Do you know Ruiz even with legal problems with Top rank has had more fights/rounds than Breazeale from 2016?

They've both been inactive over the past 3 years, so yes, that's a strike against both, not just Ruiz. But Ruiz is coming straight off a win over 6' 6" Dimitrenko only last month, which was a perfect tune-up for AJ.

[JWHardin]

Imagine what Ruiz would look like if he had the same bodyfat % as Wilder? He'd be a light heavy probably, or cruiser weight for sure.

Hearn needs to stfu with the nonsense. Should have delayed the fight a few weeks and fought Ortiz....someone who actually has a chance. No top heavy will fight for titles with 3 weeks notice, unless you are someone like Ruiz, who has nothing to lose.

[angkag]

If we go back and watch the first couple of rounds of Povetkin v Joshua, that right there is the style Joshua doesn't do well with. He didn't figure Povetkin out, Povetkin just tired and his defence opened up and made it easy for Joshua. Question is, is there anyone who can replicate those first couple of rounds by Povetkin for the full 12 ? Ruiz is not that guy, he might look ok in there for a couple of rounds, but without feet, he's a static target to incoming and heavy artillery (like Breazeale was).

So the style that might give Joshua fits is a Povetkin with a better engine (aka Usyk).

Not to say its the only way to beat Joshua, but Povetkin showed one way to win rounds.

[kafkod]

I don’t even mind the casuals because they will most likely flow with the wave.

However, the ones with agendas are always hilarious in an irritating way. And it has more to do with their insecurities and low self-esteem issues.

Tell me about it! Sometimes they are too hilarious to be irritating, sometimes the other way round!